In case you have not yet tried enabling Endpoint Protection in CM 2012 and wondering how to do it, let me try to help you.
One of the most important things to determine Is where to install the Endpoint protection Point role in your CM 2012 hierarchy...

The Server Locator Point is no more a separate site system role in SCCM 2012. It's functionality is merged into the Management Point.
To install CM12 client on workgroup machines:
Make sure your Management Point is published on DNS or WINS
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Question: I have successfully Installed Configuration Manager 2012, with one Central Administration site and two Primary site servers. Okay, so what do I do next and where to start from?
Answer: This is well documented in the TechNet library and...

I am completely in love with my Lenovo X1 Carbon ever since i got it. There was one thing however which i wanted to change for my better experience. I wanted to disable the touch keyboard. It popped up when i tapped an area on the screen where i can type...

Cross Posted from PTS Blogs: http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsblog/archive/2011/12/20/configuration-manager-2012-rc-configure-software-catalogue-portal-and-publish-applications.aspx
The Software Catalogue portal is a cool new feature in System Center...

"System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection is going to consolidate desktop security and management into a single on-premise solution"
So what's new? It been there ever since FEP 2010 was integrated into SCCM 2007. Is there anything new about it? What...

Inventory reports with stale records have been one of the pain areas for Administrators. The poor client health with no auto-remediation and inefficiently configured maintenance tasks are major reasons behind it.
Configuration Manager 2012 is going...

This article is cross posted from my original post on PTS Official Blog
A few days back, I configured OS deployment in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Beta 2 to deploy a Windows 7 Image, which I had captured using Configuration Manager 2007...

User Driven Installation lets your end users control the OS deployment and you can let them select things like the computer name, Add themselves to the local admin group, select the Image, select the domain and the OU, enable bit-locker, applications...

Cross posted from PTS Blogs http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsblog/archive/2011/03/02/using-sccm-r3-pre-stage-media-to-prestage-os-deployments.aspx
In this post I’ll demonstrate how to use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 to create prestaged...

Check out the post by Scott, which explains following updates made to Windows Azure - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2014/02/20/azure-expressroute-dedicated-networking-web-site-backup-restore-mobile-services-net-support-hadoop-2-2-and-more.aspx...

Download MDT 2012 from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25175 Before you start the installation from the MSI installer make sure the prerequisites are in place. Some of the common Prerequisites for installing MDT 2012 are: Microsoft...

Cross posted from PTS Blogs http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsblog/archive/2011/12/16/how-to-install-the-configuration-manager-2012-primary-site.aspx
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On the primary...

When I tried to deploy a Task Sequence in CM 2012, I noticed two surprising elements. One, that the Deploy Task Sequence option was greyed out. I checked almost everything related to the task sequence, but found nothing that could change...

A new version of System Center Cloud Services Process Pack is available for download now. This will work with Service Mnager 2012 RTM so if you are one of the enthusiasts waiting after RTM installation, go grab it!
Its available under System Center...

Security Compliance Manager 3.0 (SCM 3.0) is now available for download! SCM 3.0 is a free tool from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team that enables you to quickly configure and manage both desktops and servers using Group Policy and Microsoft System...

Hello and welcome to my first blog post.
My name is Anil Malekani, and I work as a Partner Consultant at Microsoft. In this position I work with Microsoft Partners to provide consulting to our customers and partners in areas like System Center, Forefront...